[comp.mail.misc] Something

koblas@mips.COM (David Koblas) (12/21/89)

Currently a sendmail configuration that I have running "rewrites" 
(changes from ! path to %@ path), delivers mail to its next hop.
The Internet site which recives the message and then gateways it
on to the UUCP network fails to rewrite it back into a ! path.

[ By example:
     user sends mail to: 	user@a
     rewritten to      :	user%a%b%c%d@e
     site 'e' delivers
       to UUCP site 'd':	user%a%b%c@d
     site 'c' recieves :        user%a%b@c
       and site 'c' is
       unable to parse
       a '%' path!
]

Thus my question is: since site 'e' gatewayed the mail message into
UUCP, should they not change the %@ path into a ! path?

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rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (12/22/89)

In <33886@mips.mips.COM> koblas@mips.COM (David Koblas) writes:
 [ By example:
      user sends mail to: 	user@a
      rewritten to      :	user%a%b%c%d@e
      site 'e' delivers
        to UUCP site 'd':	user%a%b%c@d
      site 'c' recieves :        user%a%b@c
        and site 'c' is
        unable to parse
        a '%' path!
 ]
>Thus my question is: since site 'e' gatewayed the mail message into
>UUCP, should they not change the %@ path into a ! path?

There is no such thing as a %@ path.  It's practically a contradiction
in terms -- an atsign address is NOT a route.  Using more than one % in an
address is asking for real, serious, trouble.

You'll have to find another way to do what you want.
	/r$
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